Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.